John samuel headen



(ModeL) J. s. HEADENQ WASHING MACHINE.

-No. 338,840. Patented Mar. 30, 1886.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN SAMUEL HEADEN, OF PLEASANT HILL, MISSOURI.

WASHING -MACHINE.

@PECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 338,840, dated March30, 1886.

Application filed July 3, 1885 To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, J can SAMUEL HEADEN,

of Pleasant Hill, in the county of Cass and State of Missouri, haveinvented a new and Improved WVashingMachine, of which the following is afull, clear, and exact description.

The special object of my invention is to promote the quick and thoroughcleansing of clothes by providing a simple, efficient, inexpensive, anddurable machine for accomplishing the work.

Theinvention consists in awashingmachine comprising a covered tub orVessel to hold the washing-fluid, and a rotatable clothes-holding rackarranged in the tub, and comprising a shaftjonrnaled in the tub andprovided with a handle, and also with upper and lower boards or platestied to each other by vertical bars and having rack-bars, and alsohaving a central cross board or plate, whereby the clothes will beforced through the washing-fluid by the rotation of the rack and will bequickly cleansed without injuring them, all. as hercinafter fullydescribed and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part ofthis specification, in which similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a vertical sectional elevation of my improvedwashing-machine, parts being broken away. Fig. 2 is a plan view thereof,and Fig. 8 is a plan View in section on the line at 90, Fig. 1.

The letter A indicates a tub or vessel of suitable size and preferablyround in form, and B is a center bar or plate which is notched at theends to fit over the handles a a of the tub, and O O are side pieceswhich fit at each side of the bar or plate B, and with it form the coverto the tub A.

In the bar 13 isjournaled a shaft, D, which also is stepped in thebottom of the tub, or it may be in the false bottom E placed therein,and the shaft D carries fixedly a clothes-holding frame or rack, F,which consists of upper and lower boards or plates, f f, connected toeach other by vertical brace or tie bars f and provided with rack-barsG,which are fixed in or to the plates ff near the bars f and across theframe F is fixed to the shaft D the board or plate H, theclothes-holding frame revolving inside the tub A when the handle I atthe (ModeL) top of the shaft D is turned one way or the other.

The operation is as follows: The clothes to be washed are placed in theframe F between the center board, H, and the rack-bars G at each end ofsaid frame, and when the cover is adjusted on the tub to preventsplashing of the washing-fluid from the tub the handle I will be turnedreverse ways, preferably halfway round and back to force the clothesthrough the fluid as the rack-frame F G and board H are turned, saidboard H serving, while holding the clothes, to regulate and control thefluidcurrents in the tub, and the clothes in the rack-frame will veryquickly and thoroughly be cleansed without rubbing, pounding, squeezing,or steaming them; hence the clothes will not be so liable to injury aswhen washed by machines acting on either of the last above-namedprinciples.

It is obvious that the washing machine herein shown and described isefficient, durable, and well calculated to wash the clothes thoroughlyand with economy of time and labor.

Machines constructed substantially as above described and shown in thedrawings, and made of suitable size, may be used with good effect aschurns, and will produce a thorough agitation of the cream to bring thebutter quickly.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A washing-machine constructed with a tub or vessel, a cover therefor,and a rotatable clothes-holding rack comprising a shaft, D, journaled inthe tub and provided with a handle, a frame, F, made with upper andlower boards or plates, ff, tie-bars f, rack bars G, and a cross-board,H, all constructed and combined for operation substantially as hereinset forth.

2. The rotatable clothes-holding frame or head F, comprising a shaft, D,provided with ahandle, boards or plates f f, tie-bars f, rack-bars G,and a cross-board, H, substantially as shown and described.

JOHN SAMUEL HEADEN. lVitncsses:

W. E. CARTER, W. A. McAR'rHUR.

